Car-door fastener.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 31, 1906.

Application filed July 26 1905. Serial No. 271.311.

To all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that I, FRANKLIN LEROY Es'rns, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resldent of Lambert, in the county of Quitman and State ofMississippi, have invented anew and Improved Car-Door'Faste'ner, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in fasteners for sliding doors offreight-cars, the object being to provide a fastener of simpleconstruction, having no parts liable to get out of order, that cannot bereleased without breaking the car-seal, and that when moved in releasingdirection will start the door toward its opening position.

I will describe a ear-door fastener embodying my invention, and thenpoint out the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be hadto' the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a side elevation of a portion of a freight-car and door witha fastener embodying my invention in place. Fig. 2 shows the members ofthe latch released; and Fig.3 is a plan, partly in section, showing theparts in looking position.

Referring to the drawings, 5 designates a ortion of'a car, and 6 thesliding door there or. Secured to the car is a portion of the fasteningdevice, consisting of a metal bar or member7, having atits end adjacentto the door-opening an o ening 8 for receiving a lug 9, carried by t 1efastening member 10, mounted to swing on the car-door, as will behereinafter described. Thislug 9 is curved on one side, so as to readilypass into the opening 8.

At the outer end of the member 7 is a lug 11 provided with aperforation, and the outer end of the member 10 is also rovided with aperforation 12, and through t ese perforations a sealing-wire 13 isdesigned to be passed when the members are in looking position.

The member 10 is provided with a handle 14, and obviously it cannot bevswnng out of engagement with the-member 7 without breakingthe:s'ealing-wire13. The' inem ber'10 has an eccentric-head 15, and thepin 16, which passes through this eccentric-head, also passes through aWear-plate 17 and through the car-door.

In the operation when the member 10 1s swung out of engagement with themember 7 the eccentric-head 15 by engaging against anantifriction-roller 1 8 at the end of saidmember 7 will start the doortoward its openmg p0s1- tion, so that the edge may be readily grasped bya person to slide the door fully open. f The eccentric head is of ringform, and has an inner projection 19 opposite the pivot 16,

designed to engage a stop-pin 20'on the Wearplate and limit the openingmovement of the member 10that is, to stop the member when in verticalposition, as indicated in Flg. 2. By this arrangement when the eccentriccomes in contact with the roller 18 u on closing the door the member 10will e automatically moved to locking position. Having thus described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to' secure by Letters Patent I1.;Acar-door fastener comprising a member adapted to be secured to a car,and having an opening at its end adjacent to the cardoor opening, amember mounted to swing on the door and having an eccentric-head of ringshape, and having a projection at the inner side, a stop-pin forengaging with sald projection, and a lug on the last-named member forengaging in the opening of the firstnamed member.

2. A car-door fastener comprising a member adapted to be secured to acar, and having an opening at its end adjacent to the cardoor opening, aroller arranged in said end of said member, a member to sw' on'thecardoor, and having an eccentricead for en.

gagingsaid roller, and a curved lu on the swinging member for engagingint c opening of the first-named member.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANKLIN LEROY ESTES.

Witnesses:

H. K. WEST,

